Thanksgiving

2 Thessalonians 1

³ _b We ought always to give thanks to God for you, brothers, ₁ as is right, because your faith is growing abundantly, and the love of every one of you for one another is increasing. ⁴ Therefore _c we ourselves boast about you _d in the churches of God for your steadfastness and faith _e in all your persecutions and in the afflictions that you are enduring.

1. Cross References
   2 Thessalonians 2:13
   But we ought always to give thanks to God for you, brothers beloved by the Lord, because God chose you as the firstfruits to be saved, through sanctification by the Spirit and belief in the truth.
   Ephesians 5:20
   Giving thanks always and for everything to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
   1 Thessalonians 1:2 - 3
   We give thanks to God always for all of you, constantly mentioning you in our prayers.
   
2. Cross References
   2 Corinthians 7:14
   For whatever boasts I made to him about you, I was not put to shame. But just as everything we said to you was true, so also our boasting before Titus has proved true.
   1 Thessalonians 2:19
   For what is our hope or joy or crown of boasting before our Lord Jesus at his coming? Is it not you?
   
3. Cross References
   1 Thessalonians 1:8
   For not only has the word of the Lord sounded forth from you in Macedonia and Achaia, but your faith in God has gone forth everywhere, so that we need not say anything.
   1 Corinthians 7:17
   Only let each person lead the life that the Lord has assigned to him, and to which God has called him. This is my rule in all the churches.
   
4. Cross References
   Mark 10:30
   Who will not receive a hundredfold now in this time, houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and lands, with persecutions, and in the age to come eternal life.
   1 Thessalonians 2:14
   For you, brothers, became imitators of the churches of God in Christ Jesus that are in Judea. For you suffered the same things from your own countrymen as they did from the Jews.